Quotes About Independence

Problem is, "everyone else" is as crowd-like as "everyone." Their opinions usually aren't unique, and their analysis often isn't any broader or better than the main crowd

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Kate gave a disdainful wave of her hand. "I poo-poo the chit." The attendant looked stunned. "You cannot poo-poo the chit!" "I do," she said solemnly. "I do poo-poo.

I renounced what I considered to be my Christian faith at around age seventeen, not without fear and trembling. I found the idea of using God as a crutch totally distasteful. I preferred to be on my own. In hindsight I now see that my apparent abandonment of "faith" has actually paved the way for real faith. Sometimes, it is necessary to tear down the old so that the new can be built.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long—all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.

You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Freedom and Whisky gang thegither!

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change.

We're creating... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.

It all began to disappear, what my parents wanted from me, who they wanted me to be, the future they had so carefully planned.

But a new kind of life, one that she had longed to know as a child, opened up to our mother when we left. Over endless late-night phone conversations, she sympathized with our bureaucratic dilemmas, asked about our new friends and reminded us to eat well and sleep plenty.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

Many, if not most, good ideas die young -- mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. Once well started, an opinion had better be left to shift for itself.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

When we think we lead, we are most led.